HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #6080859960
Bassin de Río Pichanas
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Cruz del Eje
Sub-basin area
12,3km²
Upstream area
2 336,3km²
Discharge
6,71m³/s
Mean elev.
473m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Arroyo El Huaico778 km²
- Bassin de Arroyo Tacnasa248 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 12.3 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 25 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,8°C
Annual rain
517mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
1 531mm
AET
437mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
149cm
Forest
60%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)